Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balance the Chinese budget for some time to come, may find opium an aid in standing off the U. S. silver producers who want to unload on China a silver loan (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week Senator Key Pittman of silver-surplussed Nevada announced in Washington that he will sail next month to confer with Dr. Soong...
With him did not sail French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. During the week all Paris was agog with rumors that M. Raymond Poincare. invalid though he is, has decided to strain every nerve to prevent M. Briand from succeeding M. Doumergue as President...
...Great Chalice of Antioch, where it was discovered in 1910 by some excavating Arabs. It has been since 1914 the property of Fahim Joseph Kouchakji. a Syrian Catholic born in Aleppo who became a U. S. citizen last week. Art Collector Kouchakji was planning last week to sail for France with the Chalice, to show it in an exhibition of Christian art at the Louvre next month. This will be the first time it will have been exhibited publicly, although archaeological experts and other accredited persons have always been allowed to examine...
...keynote of this manner and perhaps its most unfortunate aspect is its suppression of enthusiasm in any form. Life, with all its varied experience and shifting sensations, is not so remarkable after all and the idea is to sail through it as much on an even keel as possible. To be surprised or shocked at anything or to have some absorbing interest is, to say the least, bad form. There is a definite philosophy behind this attitude which would doubtless find its supporters among the Epicureans and Cyrenaics of antiquity--namely, that nothing abides but all things flow...
Count von Luckner's private yacht, the "Mopelia," formerly known as the "Vaterland," is to be the cruise ship. She is 235 feet in length, spread 28,000 feet of sail, and is powered with two Diesel auxiliaries. A large smoking room is one of the features of the ship, and here every night, beyond the twelve-mile limit, the cruise party will gather to hear of the thrilling sea raids of Count von Luckner during the World...